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Wafer
A thin slice of semiconductor material used as the substrate for the fabrication of integrated circuits.
hardwareWASM in Blockchain(WASM)
WebAssembly; a binary instruction format that allows high-performance code to run in blockchain environments.
webWaterfall Model
A linear and sequential approach to software development where each phase must be completed before the next one begins.
devWeaviate
An open-source vector database that allows you to store data objects and vector embeddings from your favorite ML-models.
aiWeb3
An idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as decentralization, blockchain technologies, and token-based economics.
webWeb Application Firewall(WAF)
A specific type of firewall that filters, monitors, and blocks HTTP traffic to and from a web application.
networkWebAssembly(Wasm)
A binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine, designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages.
webWebAuthn
A web standard published by the W3C that allows for passwordless authentication using public-key cryptography.
securityWeb Bluetooth API
A browser API that allows web applications to communicate with nearby Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices.
webWeb Components
A suite of different technologies allowing you to create reusable custom elements with their functionality encapsulated away from the rest of your code.
webWebGL
A JavaScript API for rendering high-performance interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the use of plug-ins.
webWebGPU
A future web standard and JavaScript API for accelerated graphics and machine learning, designed to succeed WebGL.
webWebhooks
A method of augmenting or altering the behavior of a web page or web application with custom callbacks.
webWeb MIDI API
A browser API that allows web applications to enumerate, select, and interact with MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) devices.
webWebP
A modern image format developed by Google that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web.
webWebpack
A powerful and highly configurable module bundler for modern JavaScript applications.
webWeb Performance Optimization(WPO)
The field of knowledge and practice focused on increasing the speed and efficiency of websites and web applications.
webWebRTC
An open-source project and browser API that enables real-time communication (audio, video, and data) directly between browsers without plugins.
webWeb Share API
A browser API that allows web applications to use the native sharing capabilities of the user's device.
webWebSockets
A computer communications protocol providing full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection.
webWeb Speech API
A browser API that enables web applications to incorporate voice data into their interface, supporting both speech recognition and synthesis.
webWebTorrent
A streaming torrent client for the web browser and the desktop, written entirely in JavaScript.
webWeb USB API
A browser API that allows web applications to communicate with USB devices.
webWeb Worker
A JavaScript script executed from an HTML page that runs in the background, independently of other scripts that may also have been executed from the same HTML page.
webWei
The smallest unit of Ether (ETH), used to measure values on the Ethereum network.
webWeight Decay
A regularization technique that adds a small penalty to the loss function based on the size of the model's weights, discouraging them from becoming too large.
aiWhale
An individual or entity that holds a significantly large amount of a particular cryptocurrency.
webWhaling
A form of spear phishing targeted at high-profile individuals, such as CEOs, CFOs, or other senior executives.
securityWide Area Network(WAN)
A network that extends over a large geographical distance, often connecting multiple LANs across cities, countries, or continents.
networkWi-Fi
A family of wireless networking technologies based on the IEEE 802.11 standards, used for local area networking and internet access.
networkWireless Sensor Network(WSN)
A group of spatially dispersed and dedicated sensors for monitoring and recording the physical conditions of the environment and organizing the collected data at a central location.
networkWireshark
A widely-used network protocol analyzer that lets you see what's happening on your network at a microscopic level.
securityWordPiece
A subword tokenization algorithm similar to BPE, but instead of frequency, it chooses merges that maximize the likelihood of the training data.
aiWorkbox
A set of libraries developed by Google that simplify the process of adding offline support and caching to web applications using Service Workers.
webWorkload Identity
A mechanism that allows cloud workloads (like pods in Kubernetes) to authenticate with other cloud services using their own identity, rather than shared secrets.
cloudWrapped Token
A tokenized version of another cryptocurrency that exists on a different blockchain.
webWrite-back Cache
A cache writing strategy where data is only written to the cache initially, and main memory is updated only when the cache line is evicted.
hardwareWrite Buffer
A buffer used to queue write requests to a slower storage medium, such as RAM or a disk, to prevent the faster processor from stalling.
hardwareWrite-through Cache
A cache writing strategy where data is written to both the cache and the main memory simultaneously.
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